Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philoso...

Over a period of a year, the symposium on clinical judgment has taken shape as a volume devoted t...

This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas...

The concept 'health' is ambiguous [18,9, 11]. The concept 'mental health' is even more so. 'Healt...

The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest inthe medical humanities claimed a pr...

The relation of mind and body is one of the central problems of post- Cartesian times. It has pre...

The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusiv...

Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the pro...

This volume, which has developed from the Fourteenth Trans- Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy ...

Focusing on the role of social and political ideology in the development of bioethics, this book ...

This volume developed from and around a series of six lectures sponsored by Rice University and t...